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Today I had to use my electronics degree . . . Ok, I have no electronic engineer degree, but I didn't let that stop me.
Cable television is not in the budget right now, and I have two TV's in my house that are showing nothing but snow on every channel.
I found a old tv antenna in the thrift store. It had the old 300-Ohm Flat TV antenna cable with two leads on it. One had the "feety things" (spade lugs) for the UHF connection. The second lead for the VHF connection was missing the spade lugs.
I used a utility knife and cut off the spade lugs from a broken tv antenna someone had given me. I spliced the VHF cable lead and the spade lugs together. Whamo! Better TV reception.
With a few exceptions. It's by no means as clear as cable. And ghost images sometimes appear on the TV screen whenever I walk across the room. And yeah, channel 7 rolls when ever the background music crescendos. HOWEVER, it is way better than the snow I was watching before. And I was able to have my Sunday night tradition of watching "Extreme Makeover - Home Edition" and cry at the ending.